OPAC view title display – punctuation missing

[Elaine Hardy]

OPAC view title display – punctuation missing

When a bib record for a work containing multiple titles and the 245 containing either the correct punctuation between the |a and |b (a semicolon) or a |h GMD is present, the OPAC view excludes the punctuation in both the result list and the record display.

Examples:

For bib record of video recording containing “Assassins” and “The Specialist”, the 245 correctly formatted as:

245 00 ‡aAssassins ; ‡bThe specialist / ‡cWarner Bros.

Displays in OPAC view as:

Assassins The specialist (see: https://gapines.org/eg/opac/record/4221829?locg=1;detail_record_view=0;page=0;query=title%3Aassassins%20specialist)

If the incorrect : is used to separate multiple titles in the 245, the punctuation is included in the OPAC view title and search result display.

If the |h is still present (while it is no longer used in RDA, PINES still has older records with the |h):

245 00 ‡aAssassins ‡h[videorecording] ; ‡bThe specialist / ‡cWarner Bros. Entertainment.

OPAC view:

Assassins The specialist (see https://gapines.org/eg/opac/record/5752001?locg=1;detail_record_view=0;page=0;query=title%3Atitle%3Aassassins%20specialist)

Result list for search also excludes separating punctuation:
https://gapines.org/eg/opac/results?locg=1;detail_record_view=0;page=0;query=title%3Atitle%3Aassassins%20specialist

[Elaine Hardy (ehardy)]

This is for version 3.4.1 and earlier

[Jeff Davis (jdavis-sitka)]

I noticed in bug 1864507 that MODS will strip some trailing punctuation. I think that's probably what is happening here, as you can see from the MODS representation of Elaine's example:

https://gapines.org/opac/extras/supercat/retrieve/mods32/record/4221829

Standard title display field configuration (config.metabib_field) is based on MODS, so if the MODS version doesn't include the semicolon, it won't be displayed. I don't think we want to modify the MODS transformation itself, so maybe display fields need to be based on MARCXML?

[Elaine Hardy (ehardy)]

Agree to not modifying MODS transformation. I did find this :

Punctuation

If using International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) punctuation in creating MODS records, punctuation should be retained if it occurs within an element, but should be dropped between elements. If desired, an XSLT stylesheet may be used to generate an ISBD display from the MODS elements and data.

https://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/introduction.html#xml_structures